Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars."--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wildman, Charlotte, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Urban renewal > England > Manchester > History > 20th century.
City and town life > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Social change > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Liverpool (England) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Manchester (England) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Liverpool (England) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Manchester (England) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684821706719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939
  • "Soaring Skyward" : Urban Regeneration
  • Civic Week Celebrations
  • "For Profit or Pleasure" : New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture
  • Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transformed City
  • Gender, Religious Selfhoods and the City
  • The Cathedral That Never Was?
  • Conclusion: The Second World War and the Challenge to Interwar Urban Culture.

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